What is the current recommendation for air travel after a primary spontaneous pneumothorax?   

General guidelines including the British Thoracic Society recommend delaying air travel for at least 2 weeks following the radiographic resolution of a pneumothorax. However, recent studies have challenged this conservative approach. A study by Majercik et al., PMID 25494425 demonstrated that p...

Yogi Berra said "in theory there is no difference between theory and practice, in practice there is". There is a paucity of evidence to support current clinical guidelines. In 30 years of practice, I have had many patients travel within days of a small pneumothorax with no complications. This is als...